Lifestyle

Mike Wilson: Christening ‘The Lucky 7’

By Mike Wilson When the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area, featuring hundreds of acres of flooded timber for ...

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Wanna step outside? Turkey tales

By Dan Kibler Thanksgiving was Thursday, and the minds of most hunters in North Carolina were squarely focused ...

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Wanna step outside? Salisbury lakes among those being stocked with trout

By Dan Kibler The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has plans to stock mountain trout in December in some ...

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Dan Kibler’s Wanna Step Outside: Living the dream

It only took Ralph Mason about 30 years of hard work to finally get his dream job. He ...

Lifestyle

Mike Wilson: A handy guide to low disposable income fowling

A well-heeled middle-aged acquaintance of mine recently decided to take up hunting for the first time and asked ...

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Wanna step outside? Duck season still brings plenty of excitement

By Dan Kibler When I was growing up, I used to have trouble sleeping the night before opening ...

Outdoor

Outdoors: Waterfowl hunters should take avian influenza precautions

RALEIGH — Officials from North Carolina natural resources and public health agencies remind waterfowl hunters to be observant and ...

State News

Third CWD case confirmed in NC deer herd

RALEIGH – A third deer in North Carolina has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Officials with ...

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Dan Kibler’s Wanna Step Outside? Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale …

By Dan Kibler The S.S. Minnow has finally made its maiden voyage. With apologies to the old 30-minute ...

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Dan Kibler’s Wanna Step Outside? Removing invasive feral swine

By Dan Kibler Landowners in five North Carolina counties — four in the Piedmont — can obtain tools ...

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Dan Kibler’s Want to Step Outside: Improving wildlife habitat

In 1985, when I became outdoors editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, the publisher, Joe Doster, told me I ...

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Wanna step outside: Deer to be collected for CWD testing

By Dan Kibler The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has published the sites where deer heads will be collected ...

Outdoor

Dan Kibler’s Wanna Step Outside: Archery season now open

Hunters across North Carolina  — especially in the northwestern corner of the state — are in for a ...

Lifestyle

Mike Wilson: A harrowing journey to Mattamuskeet with 36 hours of biscuits and buns

By Mike Wilson Depressed by the general scarcity of local ducks, my hunting buddy and I had talked ...

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Wanna step outside: Hunting season is here

By Dan Kibler I can remember, as a kid, getting very little sleep the night before the third Saturday ...

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Wanna step outside? Former Davie football coach Illing goes from pigskin to Salty Fin

For years, Doug Illing has looked forward to the approach of autumn because of his primary job: coaching ...

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Wanna step outside? Preparing archery equipment for deer season

By Dan Kibler North Carolina’s statewide archery season for white-tailed deer opens Sept. 10, and for the tens ...

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Wanna step outside? Salem Lake set to reopen

By Dan Kibler Fishermen and paddlers in the Winston-Salem area have had their prayers answered, as city officials ...

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Wanna step outside? Awwwww, shucks — it’s time to do some shelling

By Dan Kibler It’s firecracker hot outside, almost too hot to fish, except maybe the first and last ...

Outdoor

Dan Kibler: Bream, the sunfish of the South

Like most fishermen, the first fish I caught was a bream – from Georgia’s Lake Sinclair at a ...

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Dan Kibler: Kayaks the way to fish now

Go fishing almost anywhere these days, and you’re bound to see more of one kind of popular fishing ...

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Wanna step outside? Already time to start thinking about deer season

By Dan Kibler Deer season is three months away, but it’s already time for hunters to start thinking, ...

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Wanna step outside: Living and dying with how well puppy drum are biting

HATTERAS — About 40 years ago, I first met Steve Hissey, who owns The Pelican’s Roost, a tackle ...

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Wanna step outside? The plight of flounder and red snapper fishermen

By Dan Kibler Whenever I start thinking about my outrage that fishermen can target flounder in North Carolina ...

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Wanna step outside? Stanly County youth hunters shine in skills tournament

By Dan Kibler Teams from around the state were no match for entries from Stanly and Surry counties ...

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Dan Kibler: Waterfowl, migratory bird hunting seasons are set for 2022-23

By Dan Kibler North Carolina waterfowl hunters and hunters who target webless migratory game birds got their season ...

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Dan Kibler: Q&A on chronic wasting disease set for May 2

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will hold a question-and-answer public forum about chronic wasting disease at the agency’s ...

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Dan Kibler: Talking turkey

Tom Kelly, an octogenarian from Spanish Fort, Ala., has written some of the most-entertaining books on turkey hunting ...

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